The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 5, 1936, Page 4

PAGE FOUR coe tet SOCIETY te! ecccacece School Class Puts | Arrange Cake Walk | At Armory Hall May ist,! the chapei program 0: the Divi- sion Street School was presented: nder the direc- Miss Flor. 5 having Ch Health’ norning All is in readiness for the cake o! Armory Hall, and which is spon- sored by the Past Pocahontas Club, on Wednesday at 8 p. m. A musical program in which 1 Mrs. Alice W. Curry, Mrs. Carl ; to a Special: Bervaldi, Mrs. Eva B. Warner, s an added at-j Miss Edith Russell, Victor Larsen pre-'and others will participate, will the| open the evening’s entertainment was and the “walk” will follow. | Well known walkers such Mrs. Maud Whitaker, Mam tion of their te ence Albury. been set aside traction Miss Edna sented two : operetta “F presented Fi Followir : Solo, a Farm-/ sell, er’s Wife”—Edith Willi | Rodriguez, W. Lord Tap Dance—Norma Garcia and| will be seen. Gerald Pinder. é | Del Woods. Bob Pinder, Song. “The Mavpole Dance”—/Torano, M. V. Plant and by Girls of the Ci | Ayala have volunteered to Talk—Rev. S. Peele. jnish the music for the occasion. Song, “The Three Doctors”—| by School. ining and honored hi Play, “The Health Alphabet”—! prise birthday par by Class | birthday anniversa Song, Habits”—by| Refreshments f cake. ice Class. leream, beer and wine were served {and a good time was had by all a | attending. Surprise Party | Among those attending wer Houston Pent. Ralph Gonzalez, * | For Chas. Tift Mrs. Charles Tift and children, of| Charles Pere: rs, Lillian Carey. esto Evelyn les and Miss Ruth Johnson. as and othe’ Joe n with a su on his 42nd “Health Friends and Charles Tift ga dence on Divis COLORED FOLKS © COLORED SCHOOL HAVE CONCERT EXHIBIT CLOSES HELD AT DIXIE THEATER IN, MANY PERSONS VIEW VARI- CONNECTION WITH ' OUS ARTICLES INCLUDED MUSIC WEEK IN DISPLAY employes red at his r reet last eve- ‘Colored musicians in Key West! ited Doug- last night inaugurated National jes High School to sce the school Music Week with a concert in the aS =e G Biixie Theater. The program in- exhibit of handicraft, art work, Scores of persons v walk which is to be held at thej sie Lowe, Annie Baker. G.| > Gus} NEW BUSINESS STARTED HERE A. F. SHEPHERD PLAC=D IN. CHARGE OF OPERATIONS | OF NEW COMPANY | W. S. Wagstaff, president of gas Apzlian Inc., Elec- ux and gas refrigerators, was caller at The Citizen oifiee yes- j terd: to place an advertisement tof the establishment of a com-! i 's hendquarters in Key West ; with A. F, Shevherd, in charge. | He introduced Manager Shep-; herd, who of course needed no} |introduction, as he is a former: {Key Wester who has been away: the city for about four rs, and comes back to re- tablish himself among his many |friends, the same happy an: | friendly Archie. hes td tell his friends h 's be glad to see them} is office, 513 Olivia street. ‘Looking At Washington | (Continued from Page One) the fervor of political partisans? The writer makes no answer but has 0! ed the phenomena! pub-| licity given to the alleged shifts} in popular support. The reader may be interested in watching the} present campaign to observe how} the outlook varies for both par-} ties. shifting from favorable to} yunfavorable and back again with {something like regularity. i | t | th {tr The Senate finally adopted the Vandenberg resolution on ecretary Wallace to report bene-| ficiaries under the AAA of more ‘than $10,000 a year. Secretary; ! Wallace is generally credited with ,a tactical error in opposing the linquiry when proposed, although| :he subsequently gave it support. |Democrats in the Senate, before ‘passing the resolution, added an ‘amendment directing the Tariff} | Commission to supply information| jabout the tar They want to} eluded vocal and of Selma Flack, in colored choral work in the Fed-} eral Music Project here. ! The chorus presented the solo parts. from memory, the chorus evidence of a great deal of con- centrated training and practice uader the dire hose attend- ing the concert said. | Vocal solos were presented by several members of the chorus, and probably the best received was that of Victor Tynes, who possesses a tenor voice of un- usually pleasing quality, it is stated. Welter’s Cornet Band played several selections, and the! entire evening’s program was con-j sidered well arranged. Acting as guest artists Janice Lewis and George Mills White of-| fered two duet numbers and Mr.\1oca) WPA unit worked with lead-; tion’s {ers in the colored schools in ar-; White, who is director here of the Federal Musie Project of the WPA, sang a group of solo num-/ bers. il In addition to the concert which was so well received last; night, an operetta is scheduled for! Thursday night as part of the} colored recognition of National! Musie Week. and some other ac-} tivities are planned by those ci zens. "WILLIAM C. HODGES | William C. Hodges, “Home- stead Bill” submits his candidacy for Governornf Florida to the! people of this State subject to the Democratie June Primaries. In asking for the vote of the peo-! ple he announces his opposition to! a Sales Tax and all nuisance taxes and declares himself in; favor of both old age and moth-, ers pensions, $5.00 automobile’ tags, and taking the gas tax of: the boats of fishermen and farm tractors when they are used in industry. He stands four-square, for the preservation of the Home-, stead Exemption Amendment and} the enlargement of its scope. He! worked for this Amendment | through all the long years of his; service in the Senate and in the} fight before the people for its} ratification, left his office, took: a sound wagon and went to every: city, village and hamlet in the; State urging the people to ratify} the Amendment. | (Paid Political Advertisement) | THOMASINE M. MILLER —BEAUTICIAN— Latest Air Cooled Method : $2.50 to $10.00 Hair Testing A Specialty 407 South St. Phone 574-3 Permanen: Sidney Blackmer-Shirley Grey inj THE GIRL WHO CAME BACK H PRIZE NIGHT TONIGHT ‘Matinee: 5-10c; Night: 10-15¢ | which| know the effect of the tariff on instrumental and laboratory concert music under the direction were shown charge of days, ending yesterday. ta great deal of work displays there for several The exhibit included work from separa el grades in the colored schoo! iments, they want to emphasize! numbers with the director singing @"d covered a multitude of sub-, that tariff benefits to Singing entirely ject matter ranging from Engli: h | turers gave essays in autobiographical to studies in Florida farming and} the citrus industry. form Handicraft work of native ma- terials, elementary studies in the earlier grades, and practical ap- plication studies of physics and chemistry were only a few of the variety of displays included in the exhibit. The exhibit was the climax to the entire year’s work in the colored schools, and represented extending of the over that entire period. The recreation section ranging the exhibit. REV. RUTLAND ARRIVES HERE Rev. R. E. Rutland of! Fort ; Lauderdale came in on ‘the’ ferry last evening. He will assist Rev. M. L. Smith in the revival services at Ley Memorial church, it i stated. The services had: a good begin- ning last evening with ‘a splendid attendance and good singing, Rev. Smith reports. MONROE THEATER Walter Abel-Margot Grahame in TWO IN THE DARK —also— WESTERN COURAGE Matinee: Balcony 10c; Orches tra 15-20c; Night 15-25c is EIEN CAn lavilat: To ovuR “TERY soon cach of our friends will be receiving 20 invitation to our Wedding; and Naturally, you want your Wedding Invitation to be the | very finest; and that is why remarkable line of genuine tions and Agpouncements in the Favored Styles of 1935. THE ARTM CITIZEN BUILDING —< aad a” { | head street. we want it to be the best looking invitation we can get.” i {selling prices, on corporate in- { comes, and on the consumer. In {other words, to off-set any un- favorable publicity on AAA pay- manufac- just 'S payment of farm } benefits. President Roosevelt outlines his eciitieat philosophy in favor of her wages for workers. more ne for farmers, more goods} produced, more and better food| eaten, fewer unemployed, and lower taxes.” Speaking in New York City, the President stressed ithe inter-dependence of the ‘dwellers in cities and those who} live on the farm, insisting that; prosperity must come to both to- gether, inasmuch as they belong} to the same “economic pat The success of his admin efforts to help farm andj wo! men could be proved, he said. by comparing the financial | pages of newspapers of 1936 with) \those of 1932. Answering critics} who complain of the cost building America,” the President said the deficit of $3,000.000,000 this year is more than off-set by | the fact that “the national income jof the people of the United States has risen from thirty-five billions in the year 1932 ¢ ty-five bil- to si lions in the year 1936.” THE KEY WEST CITIZEN You and Your Nation’s Affairs The Farm Mortgage Myth By GUS W. DYER Professor of Economics and Sociology, Vanderbilt University The farm mortgage problem as generally understood is a pure myth. The impression created by agitators and politicians that the farmers are hopelessly mortgaged, and on the brink of bankruptcy and ruin is abso- lutely without foundation in fact Radical legislation has been enacted and enormous public gifts have been made in the in- farmers on the condition of distress that never existed. The government reports on the mortgage question are decidedly m's- leading to the average reader. From the census reports of 1930 we get the following: Total farm mortgage debt . + + -$9,241,390,009 Total n ‘ms of owners and tenants mortgaged Total number of farms operated by owners free of debt.......... 1,845,997 This seems to mean that an over- whelming proportion of the farmers 4,162,131 picture. These figures, however, are terribly misleading. There are 2/684,- {| 365 tenants in this country, and every tenant is recorded as a separate farmer, and t!. few -cres he tills is designated a farm. This means if a plantation owner has 500 tenants and has any kind of mortgage on his plantation, large or small, the 500 ment as 500 mortgaged farmers. If the plantation owner works hired labor, his plantation is recorded as one farm. Why the government should record | land worked by tenants on a plan- tation as mortgaged farms because the owner used his plantation as col- lateral in securing a loan for invest- understand. Since great quantities of tural land is owned by cor; syndicates, big estates, b: land speculators, the fact tl land for the most part is mor:gaged means absolutely nothing with refer- ence to the general condition of azri- | culture. Everyone who knows ai about business knows that it rule for successful bi (Address questions to the a: An old fashioned sock knitting contest was held at state fair in Tampa, Fla. ' Opens Skin Pores ” Kills Scalp Itch With six itch killing med in liquid form, flows into pores 3 2 and thus gets at and kills the cause of scalp itch. 35¢ ard $1.00, FOR terest of the| assumption of a | of this country are under mortgage. | To the casual reader it gives a dark | tenants are recorded by the govern- | ment in other fields, is difficult to | of converting wealth into active working capital. Here the mortgage is not a sign-of poverty, but of pros- vating 13,000 acres of cotton in a southern state. If the huge sum that the government gives to these Eng- lishmen for “not raising cotton” is not sufficient to supply all the capital | that is needed, it is no refiection on the success of their enterprise that they secure a Joan on the plantation. Eliminating the above classes of land owners, that we may understand }the condition of the real American farmer, we have the following facts: Farms operated by full OWNETS .....-.2ce000 2,911,644 | Farms operated by full owners, mortgaged... 1,145,737 | Farms ‘ree of mortgage 1,765,907 | Mortgage indebtedness on these farms 1925. .$ 4,517,259,000 Mortgage indebtedness | on these farms 1930.. 4,080,176,000 ; Reduction | between 1925 and 1930 ;.......0000 --$ 437,083,000 Value of farms operated by owners in 1900. . .$ °9,129,328,000 Value of farms oper- | ated by owners in mortgages 21,123,468,000 Increase in value of farms 1900-1930. $11,994,140,000 Over 60% of the farms of this coun- | try operated by full owners are ab- | solutely free of mortgage. The mort- | gage indebtedness on these farms is less than 24% of the. value of all | farms so operated. There are 1,095,900 farms operated by owners in the Southern states, and 787,419 or more than 70% are absolutely free of mortgage. Mort- gage indebtedness on farms of this | class is less than 17% of the total | value of all farms operated by own- ers. | The public debt of the City of De- troit is twenty million dollars larger | than the combined farm mortgage in- | debtedness of Virginia, North Caro- lina, South Carolina, Georgia, Ala- Mississippi, Arkansas and ina. The public debt of Phila- j ia is several million dollars | greater than the combined mortgage , | indebtedness of the states named, d | with Tennessee and Kentucky added. is| The government could have paid off the whole farm mortgage indebt- | edness of all the farms in this coun- ; try operated by owners from the ap- propriation made by the last Con- gress for emergency incidentals, and then had left nearly a-billion dollars for political purposes. uthor, ccre of this newspaper) In 1900 North Carolina 50 log schoolhouses. 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Pinder, fr: keeper at Sombrero arrived yesterday to spend his vacation with his family, Ben Saunders, connected with | the Edison company in New York arrived this week over the way to join Mrs. Saunders their three children who are v:sit- ing relatives and friends. hig 1 B. . Watkins, States naturalization who was in Key West, to to matters relative to the ization of one dozer for citize ft over the hig¢h- way this mort James nited ex avplicants Visiting cards were introduced in this country Ly French ists who settled on Sapelo to escape the French revolution roy: island Herbert Marshall of the f is famil‘arly known “Bart His middle name is Brough, hi as FORCED-FEEB LUBRICATION and OIL COOLING the G-E sealed-in-stee! THRIFT-UNIT meas quieter operation. loage= G-E THRIFT-UNET requires 20 attention, nat even Available in ail models Now gives “double the coid~ and uses even less curr=ar ever. 5 Yeors Pertermence Protects! 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